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  • Title: [Autonomic dysfunction and the development of secondary brain death syndrome].
    Author: Nanassis K, Richard KE, Frowein RA.
    Journal: Zentralbl Neurochir; 1995; 56(2):73-7. PubMed ID: 7639045.
    Abstract:
    Vegetative disturbances were observed in 88 out of 102 patients, 86%, after a primary brain lesion during onset of brain death. Tachycardia was most common in 64%, hypotonia below 80 mm Hg and hypertonia above 170 mm Hg were present in about half of all cases. Hyperthermia above 40 degrees C was noted in 25%, hypothermia below 36 degrees C was observed in 31%. The kind of underlying brain lesion had no regular influence on the vegetative disturbances. In 5 out of 6 younger patients these disturbances were less pronounced.
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